ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,433, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alo, Canada).

"Modify property of 3D parts to cause different nozzle usages" was invented by Salvador Sanchez Ribes (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Jeremy Harlan Donaldson (Corvallis, Ore.) and Macia Sole Pons (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to access a digital file identifying a first plurality of parts to be fabricated in a first level of a build volume in a three-dimensional (3D) fabrication operatio...